When you turn on your oven – even on just a normal oven setting, the heating element heats up the surrounding air - we all know warm air rises, right? It happens because when you add energy, molecules ...

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Right now, as a passenger on planet Earth, you’re zooming through space at incredible speeds. But why can't you feel it?

Nuclear clocks are a technology researchers have been working toward for decades. New research in theoretical physics brings them closer to reality.

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Irishman David McWilliams’ history of money has placed him in the same ballpark as the likes of Piketty, Harari and Gladwell.

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Vinci’s 500-year-old bridge design is proven to work. Modern engineers recreated his bold concept and tested it.

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As I write this post, Taylor Swift has had a huge year. Her Eras Tour wrapped last December as the highest-grossing tour of ...